Having no new companions, nothing remained for him but to read.
JACK LONDONHe had come to know quite thoroughly the world in which he lived. His outlook was bleak and materialistic. The world as he saw it was a fierce and brutal world, a world without warmth, a world in which caresses and affection and the bright sweetness of spirit did not exist.
More Jack London Quotes
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Intelligent men are cruel. Stupid men are monstrously cruel.
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Where others have hearts, he carries a tumor of rotten principles.
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You stand on dead men’s legs. You’ve never had any of your own. You couldn’t walk alone between two sunrises and hustle the meat for your belly.
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A bone to the dog is not charity. Charity is the bone shared with the dog, when you are just as hungry as the dog.
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Life is so short. I would rather sing one song than interpret the thousand.
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There is an ecstasy that marks the summit of life, and beyond which life cannot rise. And such is the paradox of living, this ecstasy comes when one is most alive, and it comes as a complete forgetfulness that one is alive.
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I would rather be a superb meteor, every atom of me in magnificent glow, than a sleepy and permanent planet.
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Don’t loaf and invite inspiration; light out after it with a club, and if you don’t get it you will nonetheless get something that looks remarkably like it.
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So that was the way. No fair play. Once down, that was the end of you.
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Some sorts of truth are truer than others.
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I would rather that my spark should burn out in a brilliant blaze than it should be stifled by dry-rot.
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There’s only one way to make a beginning, and that is to begin; and begin with hard work, and patience, prepared for all the dissapointments.
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The function of man is to live, not to exist.
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Love cannot in its very nature be peaceful or content. It is a restlessness, an unsatisfaction. I can grant a lasting love just as I can grant a lasting unsatisfaction; but the lasting love cannot be coupled with possession, for love is pain and desire and possession is easement and fulfilment.
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Kill or be killed, eat or be eaten, was the law; and this mandate, down out of the depths of Time.
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Age is never so old as youth would measure it.
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A good joke will sell quicker than a good poem, and, measured in sweat and blood, will bring better remuneration.
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It is so much easier to live placidly and complacently. Of course, to live placidly and complacently is not to live at all.
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Life, in a sense, is living and surviving. And all that makes for living and surviving is good. He who follows the fact cannot go astray, while he who has no reverence for the fact wanders afar.
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In a saturated population life is always cheap.
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Love is the sum of all the arts, as it is the reason for their existence.
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She was thrilling to a desire that urged her to go forward, to be in closer to that fire, to be squabbling with the dogs, and to be avoiding and dodging the stumbling feet of men.
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Desire is a pain which seeks easement through possession.
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The Wild still lingered in him and the wolf in him merely slept.
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His conclusion was that things were not always what they appeared to be. The cub’s fear of the unknown was an inherited distrust, and it had now been strengthened by experience. Thenceforth, in the nature of things, he would possess an abiding distrust of appearances.
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I would rather be ashes than dust.
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